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Metal Shaders

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Wednesday, March 16, 2022, In : Learning 
Hey all!

A while ago, I became fascinated by metal in anime. Now, I know what you're not thinking: "But you're such a metal head! You should know this by now!" - to which I don't say anything, since you weren't thinking that, BUT, I will tell you what I discovered and it blew my mind! Still picking up the pieces, lol.



So let's rewind the clock a smidge. The 80's was a glorious time for anime and we got some of the coolest robot sci-fi stuff, between Voltron, transformers and some of the mobile ...

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1 - Interesting Developments

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Tuesday, September 21, 2021, In : News 
Hey all!

I hope you're all doing well! I have had covid, if some of you don't know. If you were curious about whether it's real, OH YEAH, it is VERY real, lol, and not pleasant. While being fit does help you A LOT (I have been sicker), it is by no means a protection against it and if you are not, it can kill you much more easily. DO NOT give it that chance. If you're a self-proclaimed couch potato, I really wanna encourage you to just start going for a walk everyday - or find some other physic...

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New tutorial Smoke and fire

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Monday, October 7, 2019, In : Tutorials 
Hey all!

Update
 It's so nice to be able to make another tutorial. I'm still working on the other video I talked about, but the reason it's taking so long is that it is fairly lengthy, but I have almost no footage for it, so I have to make all sorts of animations to fill in the time - it's more about the audio, so consider most of what you will see in it filler footage, lol.

Anyway, moving on.

New tutorial
   I really wanted to make a tutorial and felt led to, but I had no idea what and I felt the...

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NPR Shaders Update v5 video

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Wednesday, April 24, 2019, In : Tutorials 
Hey everyone!

This is a quick video to show you guys the new NPR shaders in v5!

GOD is so beyond amazing!!

There is a bit of news that will be added to this one. I have mentioned it in passing that the older shaders will be going away.

I'm not removing them immediately, because I still need to deal with the sharpness sensitivity. Once that is sorted out, the older shaders can be removed without anyone losing any sleep over it. If you still want the older ones or just to archive them, make sure yo...

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Common Compositing

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Friday, March 29, 2019, In : Tutorials 
Hey all!

Brand new video - and wow was it cutting it close this month! hehe. Here it is! You are gonna love it!

GOD is so amazing!

The idea for this video was literally just given. I had asked the LORD what to cover and was led to ask the community and I got very few responses. The clearest request was for character creation. While that isn't bad and definitely on the list to get an update, these just didn't fit.

For some reason, compositing and the processes involved with it, kept coming up and ...

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Clouds

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Friday, March 25, 2016, In : Tutorials 
Good day everyone!

This week went mostly to clouds! haha. Not a bad thing, because I really do like the results.

If you have every struggle with clouds or didn't know how to, checking out mine and Andrew Price's you'll be able to skip lots of headaches!

You can watch mine here:

(GOD is awesome!!)

You can watch Andrew's here - he's also the one GOD referred me to for modelling clouds better:


Have a great day and GOD bless!!

Know JESUS yet?

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Volumetrics in BGE

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Monday, May 12, 2014, In : Quick Blog Tutorial 
Hey all!

Yesterday, I went looking for a post I thought I had done on volumetrics in the game engine and I was shocked to see that it is nowhere to be found! Nowhere!!! I did find that I had included the volumetrics example in a different post, which you can check out here.

So, today's QBT is on, you guessed it, volumetrics in BGE! :D

Okay, so just for example's sake, go check out the post linked to above -- it'll open in a new tab or window, so you won't need to click back and reload. Also, thi...
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Volumetric simulation

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Monday, January 6, 2014, In : wip 
Hey all!

Let me just clarify that simulation here is literally meant. The game engine so far, does not contain volumetrics, but it does contain some things that can help you fake it, if you will, ie, simulate it.

I'm currently working on clouds and it looks great so far, but I think it can stretch far beyond just clouds. I would say that this method does require either a time lapse for a new scene or manual inserts to close the gap, at least initially.

For the moment, I only have this to show yo...
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Point density, that great miss

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Monday, September 30, 2013, In : Quick Blog Tutorial 
Hey all!

I'm sure many of you have heard of this feature, but you have absolutely no clue as to how to use it. I was there and I'm still learning some cool stuff about it; even today (the day I started writing this post; yes, sometimes it takes more than a day per post due to render times for examples)!

Now, just to show you some examples (click on them for the videos), I rendered some more practical projects and listed them below:


(ignore the cliff material's moving; it's caused by the texture ...

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The 3D tutorial applies to video too

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Wednesday, August 8, 2012, In : Tutorials 
Hey all!

I actually thought it was obvious that the 3D tutorial applied to video as well, but apparently I thought a little too much there, lol. A great friend of mine started asking me about it and was surprised when I mentioned it's for video as well (and this guy is more educated in PC's than I am), so if it wasn't obvious to him, it will most certainly not be obvious to most (possibly not even to Blender users), so here it is:
It works on video too; YEY!

Anyway, I have been working on a solu...
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If you can sing, take proper care of your voice

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Tuesday, March 20, 2012, In : Teaching and prayer 
This was quite a scary morning. I really luv to sing and enjoy recording and I've even sung for family and it's great, but I've noticed when singing certain types of music (that I really enjoy doing) pushes my voice extremely hard and it gets super tired super fast. The danger is that if I don't listen to HIS guidance on when to be quiet and let it rest, I run the risk of losing my voice before HE even gets the chance to use it full on. It's a frightening prospect for any vocalist and ...
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